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Alstom Aptis production is going to be stopped. The production lines will be halted by the end of 2021. The news is reported on several French media, among them the newspaper Le Figaro, and involves the plant of Hangenbieten (Bas-Rhin). It is reported that «the management adduces a lack of orders, a...

Keolis has been awarded a ten-year contract, worth €150 million, by Västraffik, Gothenburg’s public transport authority (PTA), to operate and maintain articulated fully electric buses in the north-eastern part of the city. The contract is scheduled to come into force in June 2022. The contract...

New electric order for Karsan in Romania. The Turkish manufacturer has been awarded Mangalia City’s electric bus tender, for a total of ten 8-meter Atak Electric. With the buses to be delivered to Mangalia in two batches in July and September this year, the number of Karsan buses in the Romani...

Volvo Buses extends the reach of its electromobility solutions to the Latin American market by testing the Volvo 7900 Electric in Mexico City. The bus is being tested on route 4 of the Mexico City Metrobús system. The fully electric unit is 12 metres long, features Volvo Buses’ characteristic techno...

e-troFit GmbH and Paul Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH have joined forces in what they term a preferred partnership. The cooperation agreement was signed in April 2021 by the two CEOs, Andreas Hager for e-troFit GmbH and Walter Pötzinger for Paul Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH. The latter is a German company which produces ...

Nova Bus has launched in operation a batch of two forty foot, fully electric Nova Bus LFSe in Brampton (Canada). The electric buses were delivered earlier this year as part of the Canadian Consortium for Urban Transportation Research and Innovation (CUTRIC) Canada-wide Interchangeability Project. Th...

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Lithium-ion batteries have entered every segment of our lives. From mobile phones and power tools to e-bikes and cars. The race for more energy and more power is on. The main driver behind that race is the progress of technology used in li-ion cells and batteries. The key parameter for any electric ...

How to manage large fleets of e-buses? How to deal between the necessity of a sufficient daily range and the efficient distribution of the appropriate charging infrastructures? Slow charging or fast charging? The transition to zero emission buses in city public transport must be based not only on a ...

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Today, representatives of Solaris have signed a contract for the supply of six electric Solaris buses for the Polish city of Szczecin within a period of 12 months from the contract being signed. The total value of the order settled at over PLN 16.5m. Last year Solaris won a tender of the city of Szc...

First series of the VDL Citea new generation ordered: transport operator Hermes (Transdev) aims for further greening of Eindhoven with 32 Citea, and will introduce in the operation a batch of vehicles from the new ‘family’ that will be launched this year (the unveiling was scheduled for ...

25 MAN Lion’s City 12 E models are set to land in Copenhagen. They are due to be delivered to Anchersen A/S later this year, in an handover that will mark the first MAN e-bus deployment in Denmark. The largest e-bus order so far with MAN has been placed in Nuremberg. Also the Dutch company […...

UK-based minibus manufacturer Mellor hits back at the Department for Transport (DfT) following last week’s disclosure that manufacturers of passenger vehicles of less than 23-passengers capacity are excluded from financial support in the Government’s £3 billion ‘Bus Back Better’ funding strategy for...

Spokane Transit adds 12 Xcelsior CHARGE electric buses for operations in Washington State. The operator unveiled in late March its first 60-foot (18-meter), five-door zero-emission Xcelsior CHARGE City Line bus, as part of a contract that the manufacturer New Flyer won in June 2020. The contract was...

A new order for 51 articulated e-buses in BRT design will bring to 113 the number of electric buses from VDL operating in the German city of Cologne for KVB. Seven more bus lines in Cologne will be converted to e-mobility starting in 2022. Cologne has also been the first city to receive the articula...

It’s the first bus line entirely operated by autonomous shuttles in the Île-de-France, close to Paris. Inaugurated on 31 March 2021, a new bus line serving the suburban train station of Saint-Quentin-en- Yvelines-Montigny-le-Bretonneux and several local business parks in the Île-de-France Mobi...

ZEBRA scheme has been launched in the UK, with up to £120 million (140 million euros) funding to help local transport authorities introduce zero-emission buses. The scheme under the name of Zero Emission Buses Regional Area is set to allow local transport authorities to: bid for funding to purchase ...

After the order secured yesterday with Stagecoach, ADL BYD has announced today an order from First Bus for a further 126 zero-emission buses for Glasgow, comprising 91 double deck and 35 single deck buses. All are part-funded by the Scottish Government. The order is the largest ever for electric bus...

Stagecoach has ordered 46 BYD ADL electric buses for its fleets in Scotland. The 24 single deck and 22 double deck buses have been part-funded by the Scottish Government and will be deployed in the operator’s fleets in Aberdeen, Perth and Kilmarnock. ADL – BYD recently announced that additiona...